Myfitnesspal says I have to eat 16,000

Lucionherjourney
Lucionherjourney Posts: 1
in Food and Nutrition
I just started using myfitnesspal, as a mean to help me loose the last 6 pounds. And I feel like the number it says is way to enourmous. Like how could I eat 10,000 calories a day, while eating normaly? that would mean eating like 8 times what I do eat normally. And then, when i finished loging my food and exercise, it told me that if I continued like that I would weight 400 and more kg! I'm so confused... Can someone explain all of this to me?
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  • micheleb15
    micheleb15 Posts: 1,418 Member
    Last 6 pounds? Exactly what stats did you enter?
  • Cindyinpg
    Cindyinpg Posts: 3,902 Member
    :huh:
  • sk_pirate
    sk_pirate Posts: 282 Member
    No. This isn't right/ What did you do to get such an obscene number?
  • richardheath
    richardheath Posts: 1,276 Member
    Pick one:

    1. You did something wrong, and entered a crazy number somewhere. Start again, and be more careful.

    2. No, you really do need to eat 10,000 calories per day.

    Which one seems most likely?
  • septembergrrl
    septembergrrl Posts: 168 Member
    Any chance you're mentally adding a 0 to the recommendation? 1,600 would be reasonable.
  • pastryari
    pastryari Posts: 8,646 Member
    :huh:
  • AmberleyAngel
    AmberleyAngel Posts: 160 Member
    Are your calculations set to kilojoules and not calories. That would make a huge difference. ;)
  • fitmusiclifeviola
    fitmusiclifeviola Posts: 99
    Re do your goals, and check back.
  • joselo2
    joselo2 Posts: 461
    that you say 'last 6lbs' suggest u lost some already so just keep on what ever you were doing, it sounds like this is just confusing you a bit.
  • awtume9
    awtume9 Posts: 423 Member
    I can't even...
  • sugarkissprincess
    sugarkissprincess Posts: 2,595 Member
    That isn't right... even when I started and needed to loose 100 pounds, mine said 1700.. I would check your stats
  • VelvetMorning
    VelvetMorning Posts: 398 Member
    Remember the movie Thinner by Stephen King?
  • kgreenRDLDN
    kgreenRDLDN Posts: 248 Member
    I just started using myfitnesspal, as a mean to help me loose the last 6 pounds. And I feel like the number it says is way to enourmous. Like how could I eat 10,000 calories a day, while eating normaly? that would mean eating like 8 times what I do eat normally. And then, when i finished loging my food and exercise, it told me that if I continued like that I would weight 400 and more kg! I'm so confused... Can someone explain all of this to me?

    You put a number in wrong when you filled out your information. Go back and recheck it all. Right now your tracker shows you have lost over 1000 pounds! Are you entering kg where it should be pounds or vis versa? Is height in the right measurement, inches versus cm or meters. Recheck your numbers they are off somewhere!
  • DaddieCat
    DaddieCat Posts: 3,643 Member
    Remember the movie Thinner by Stephen King?

    I do... but I liked the book better.
  • NRSPAM
    NRSPAM Posts: 961 Member
    You're the only one, lol! MFP wants us all to eat 1,200 calories! LMBO! Pretty sure you did something wrong entering your stats. Either that or you're reading it wrong. :wink: :heart:
  • ldrosophila
    ldrosophila Posts: 7,512 Member
    then you better get busy
  • NRSPAM
    NRSPAM Posts: 961 Member
    Remember the movie Thinner by Stephen King?

    :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
  • cwolfman13
    cwolfman13 Posts: 41,865 Member
    You fracked something up when you re-did your goals...
  • kyleekay10
    kyleekay10 Posts: 1,812 Member
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  • flumi_f
    flumi_f Posts: 1,888 Member
    You're the only one, lol! MFP wants us all to eat 1,200 calories! LMBO! Pretty sure you did something wrong entering your stats. Either that or you're reading it wrong. :wink: :heart:

    Lucion must have stolen all our calories ;-)

    No, seriously, something is severely off on that calculation. Just enter your stats again.
  • sloth3toes
    sloth3toes Posts: 2,212 Member
    If MFP told me to eat 10,000 calories a day..... I'd start eating them NOW ! I'd be in Morgan Spurlock heaven.
  • salladeve
    salladeve Posts: 1,053 Member
    Are you sure you didn't enter in the family plan! that's a lot of food, you best go shopping :bigsmile:
  • RhonndaJ
    RhonndaJ Posts: 1,615 Member
    I could eat 16000.
    ~nods thoughtfully~
    I'm pretty certain I have on more than one occasion over the years which accounts for where I am now.


    You need to do some recalculations.
  • lilacinfinity
    lilacinfinity Posts: 283 Member
    re-do your calcs.

    this used to be a common issue when people would being inputting their stats in imperial, then click to switch to metric part way through. it screws it up.

    just do them again.
  • Serah87
    Serah87 Posts: 5,481 Member
    For a minute I thought my dream came true. :sad:

    OP~you did something wrong. :flowerforyou:
  • zorbaru
    zorbaru Posts: 1,077 Member
    images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRW9c7vRGvnhcqr78o2B09HTq5F5kGEwwlQMr7LFFJwc4cmoIuHLw

    But MFP needs the troll to be fed 16000 valories
  • Oishii
    Oishii Posts: 2,675 Member
    This thread is making me hungry!
  • nomeejerome
    nomeejerome Posts: 2,616 Member
    :huh:
  • LifeEternal
    LifeEternal Posts: 9 Member
    :laugh: :laugh:
  • joselo2
    joselo2 Posts: 461
    MPF has me on 2630 a day and that is before exercise, I thought that was a record, but no!

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